“INNUMERABLE DEPTH OF BOOKS”. DUSHECHKINA E.V. “THE AUSTERE JOY OF CONTEMPLATION”: ARTICLES ON RUSSIAN CULTURE, COMPILED AND EDITED BY E.A. BELOUSOVA. MOSCOW, NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE, 2022. 808 P.

Abstract

The collection analyzes medieval Russian literature in its most diverse manifestations (The Tale of Bygone Years, the translated Legend of the Indian Kingdom, the message of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich to the Metropolitan, the future Patriarch Nikon, etc.), poetry of the 18th century (above all odes by Lomonosov and the poem by N.A. Lvov Russian 1791), Russian literature of the 19th century (Tyutchev, Leskov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Chekhov), works for children, children’s literature, the history of the New Year holiday in Russia, Russian anthroponymy, including literary. Research by E.V. Dushechkina is diverse, reflects the breadth of the author’s scientific interests, the desire to consider literary phenomena in a cultural context. Another distinctive feature of E.V. Dushechkina — invariable attention to ‘particulars’: to little-known works of the classics (for example, these are the stories by Leskov Waste Dancers and Offended before Christmas), to such marginal genres in comparison with ‘big’ literature as the Christmas story and the ‘dacha’ text. Among the grateful readers of this book, there will undoubtedly be philologists, and cultural historians, and school teachers, and students, and university professors.